# Christopher Melville (1872–1891)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1728.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1728

```text
ERECTED BY
CHRISTOPHER MELVILLE
AND MARGARET CHRISTINA
IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR FATHER
JOHN BORRIE ESQUIRE
RETIRED SHIPOWNER DUNDEE
WHO DIED AT [?] BANK CARNOUSTIE
ON 4TH JANUARY 1891
AGED 79 YEARS & 2 MONTHS
ALSO OF THEIR SISTER
MARY
WHO DIED AT GULTALONEY
ON 5TH AUGUST 1872
AND INTERRED AT KIRKMICHAEL PERTHSHIRE
AGED 27 YEARS.
ALSO OF THEIR [BROTHER?]
[?]
[?]
[?]
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002474.JPG)

Square brackets mark uncertain readings. The title is guessed from the inscription.

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